Mystery Creature

I had mentioned yesterday the "mystery creature" that is eating our vegetables. Well, here was our solution:

Our makeshift fencing! Deer fence stapled to wood posts. We "rednecked" our way through this one since we didn't have enough posts.

So it's not the best looking thing I've ever seen but hopefully it will keep whatever-it-is that is eating our kale, brussels, and chard from doing so any more! On a side note, check out those awesome looking tomatoes in the far left bed! I can't wait for some fresh tomatoes! I am even thinking of trying out canning this year if we get enough.

Closer look at the tomatoes (back bed). Not too shabby eggplant, zucchini, and cucumber plants there either. The munched on, pathetic looking plants in the front of the first bed are supposed to be Brussels sprouts. :(

To get a better idea of the havoc this creature is doing to our plants here are some close-ups:

Kale and Chinese Cabbage.

 Cilantro (upper left) and Rainbow Chard.

 More shots of the kale. It was looking so good!

Hopefully we will still be able to get plenty of greens from our Kale, Chard, and Cilantro. Pretty sure the Brussels Sprouts are a lost cause at this point, I don't think they'll be able to catch up before our lovely New England summer ends. But hopefully our farmer's market will have some! I LOVE Brussels sprouts. People who say they don't like them just have never had them made right.

On a good note, our peas are crazy tall and we've harvested a few pods from them already. The squash and peppers that share that bed are looking pretty impressive as well.

Those peas are taller than me! Peppers closest to camera, squash further away.

We also have an unexpected surprise:

Tomato plants growing our of our compost pile!

We put our food scraps in a compost pile and apparently some of those tomato seeds were able to take root. I think that's a pretty good sign our compost is good!

Happy 4th of July! Nothing like celebrating Independence Day by growing your own food!